Genome-wide analysis of transposable elements and tandem repeats in the compact placozoan genome

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wang, Shi ^a   Zhang, Lingling ^a   Meyer, Eli ^a   Bao, Zhenmin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUMETAZOA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA; TRICHOPLAX; TRICHOPLAX ADHAERENS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOME; RETROPOSON; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; RETROELEMENTS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 77950829471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-18     Document Type: Article

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